Ska is a genre that originated in Jamaica in the late nineteen-fifties, a precursor of rocksteady and reggae. The first record was cut in 1960, and with the migration of many Jamaicans to the United Kingdom it was picked up by white working-class kids as West Indian immigrants moved into what were then predominantly white neighbourhoods. By the late sixties it had become popular and a driving force within the British mod movement.

Both Jamaican rude boys and British skinheads were young and working class, black and white, often working in factories; both shaved their heads and wore big boots as a matter of necessity, and the original skinheads were both black and white. Like the rude boys before them, skinheads dressed sharp when they went out, despite having no obvious source of income to support a clothes habit. The people here follow the music and regularly visit the clubs; they are not political, they simply live for it and love to dance.